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Knife mishap

by jmgoyder on July 16, 2013

The other day I cut the tip of my thumb off just above the nail. I was cutting up potatoes and the scanpan knife slipped. I hadn’t used it before so didn’t realize how sharp. The blood frightened the hell out of me and I ran, whimpering and bleeding, to Ming’s shed. He kindly attended to the wound with about ten bandaids but it bled for over an hour.

Two days later, when I was with Anthony at the nursing lodge, the nurse in charge was kind enough to dress my thumb properly and now the missing bit (which has never been found) has nearly grown back – amazing!

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41 responses to “Knife mishap”

oh you poor thing. that must have hurt like hell. I can look at anyone else’s blood, but when it comes to my own I freak out. I probably would have screamed and peed my pants. thank goodness Ming was near by and that the nurse could help you also. Be careful, use a dull knife. LOL

Same thing happened to me Jules…only it was celery. Same bit though, top of my thumb. And YES, it grew back. But, fair warning…the new part was completely numb for a long long time….not now and i don’t recall when I actually started feeling there again, but all’s well. 🙂

The minute that I saw the picture of the knife, I knew that blood was involved. Believe it not dull knives are more dangerous than sharp knives because when you finally cut yourself, the pressure you exerted on the offending weapon is much stronger and hence the cut is much deeper. Anyway that is neither here nor there, I am so glad that you had Ming there to take care of you and the nice nurse at Anthony’s nursing lodge as back up. 🙂

Julie, I am forever cutting myself, never intentionally, but because I am a clutz, for the most part my wife has banned me from using knives until recently when she had an incident such as yours. Please be careful. Take care, Bill

So glad you did not cut of more than the tip of your thumb. Even though the skin has healed, I’ll bet it’s still tender. Be careful!!

I received a huge gash on the back of my forearm from a broken bottle. It was moving day and chaos reigned, I had no time for the ER. I used paper towels and duct tape. It worked great! It should have had stitches, but it’s healed up all right. Next time remember: Duct Tape.